While Nam, Hoa, Ba (Le Viet Tung), who fought alongside Nam’s father and carries a secret, and Viet travel south to find the burial site, Nam is also making plans to leave Vietnam.

Viet and Nam, which premiered at Cannes in May in the Un Certain Regard sidebar before bowing this week at New York Film Festival, is a dreamy observation of romantic devotion and haunted histories.

‘Viet and Nam’ Review: History Is a Shallow Grave in a Plaintive, Penumbral Queer Romance Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), May 24, 2024. Running time: 129 MIN.

Viet and Nam offers a fascinating insight into a nation’s psyche that bears a few striking thematic similarities to Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods – another emotional exhumation of the conflict ...

Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea.

Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong’s third feature Viet and Nam, featuring at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a valiant, opaque expression of Vietnam’s collective trauma centred on two gay ...